…shaming sometimes will. Mainz’s perennial shortage of working capital is finally being addressed by council. Roads aren’t being patched, dog licenses have gone up and last year, they turned off…
..and good luck Prince-Elector Markgraf von Brandenburg kicks off the line up on the Rheinufer
…but it pours. A Määnzer Mädche gets her feet wet on the Ballplatz
Can’t say that Mainz doesn’t do a good job with brand management. More city crests than you can shake a stick at….
A cherub (or is it a seraph…?) serenading from a safe height at the Gutenberg Museum
Rocked on up to “La Gallerie” the other day, a very fine Italian restaurant in the Gaustrasse shadowed by St Stephan’s church and nodded to the folks at the adjoining…
The Määnzer Mädcher fountain outside the Maria Ward school on Mainz’s Ballplatz
Madonna and child surveying the market square.
Er…summer clean? Phillip Harth’s “Tiger” sculpture on the Rhine promenade in the process of getting a good scrub. My quoting Blake at the time appears to have given Kate of…
..impaled your thumb with your sword. St Bonifatius in a state of misery.
That’s what my schoolboy Latin tells me is the translation for “Boniface”, shown here giving us the cold shoulder as he gazes over the square in front of the cathedral.…
Mainz’s very own industrial monument, the Alte Ziegelei in Bretzenheim. A field kiln* was established close to a clay quarry in the fields outside Bretzenheim in the late 19th C…
The “Drei-Mädchen” fountain on the Ballplatz, suffering from severe dehydration. The reason: No money. As usual. Mainz has enormous debts – close to €1bn – and it costs €220,000 annually…
…through the bathroom window wall. Eberhard Linke’s “Mann vom Castrum”, (so THAT’s where Darth Vader got his wardrobe ideas…) referencing Castrum Mogantiacum, the Roman stronghold dating back to 13 BC…
The Nagelsäule (Nail Pillar) on the Liebfrauenplatz behind the Dom is a veritable treasure trove. This plaque was donated to honour the Schwestern des Festungslazaretts [Sisters of the Fortification Field…
Madonna on high with cherubims, seraphims and twiddly bits at Jakobsbergstrasse 4.
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